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"Beaumont's selections reveal a young woman with an iron will (she pulled her own molar) who nevertheless craved a submissive role. If her genius husband brought Western music to the edge of modernism, Alma seems balanced on the brink of the modern age--a combination of proto-feminist and femme fatale."Alma Mahler-Werfel is the author of 'Diaries 1898-1902', published 2000 under ISBN 9780801486647 and ISBN 0801486645.
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